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The new ITER baseline, research plan and open R&D issues

An article about the new ITER baseline has been published in the June issue of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. This important article contains contributions from LPP and is co-authored by two members of our Lab, Ernesto Lerche and Dirk Van Eester. The paper is available in open access here and can be directly downloaded […]

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LPP contributed to a new publication on the physics of D-T plasmas in nature communications

LPP members Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena collaborated to a new article on Deuterium-Tritium plasma physics published in September 2024 in the prestigious journal “Nature Communications”. The paper is called Stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas with improved confinement in the presence of energetic-ion instabilities and is available in open-access from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52182-z.

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New publication in “Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion”

A paper from Dirk Van Eester, Ernesto Lerch and co-authors has been recently accepted for publication in the journal “Plasmas Physics and Controlled Fusion“. This paper is entitled “Maximising D−T fusion power by optimising the plasma composition and beam choice in JET” and focuses on the heating aspects and was intended to give a qualitative […]

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Review paper on three-ion ICRH scenarios and their applications has been selected as a “Featured Article” in Physics of Plasmas

Extremely high plasma temperatures are required to allow energy production in a fusion reactor. The Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy (LPP-ERM/KMS), led by director Prof. Michael Van Schoor, is famous for its expertise in heating fusion devices with ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH). One of the recent achievements in this field […]

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New publication in Review of Scientific Instruments

 “The upgraded TOMAS device: a toroidal plasma facility for wall conditioning, plasma production and plasma – surface interaction studies,” by Andrei Goriaev, Tom Wauters and co-authors, was published online on 02-16-2021, in Review of Scientific Instruments (Vol.92, Issue 2). It may be accessed via the link below: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033229 Here is the abstract of this article: […]

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New publication (January 2021)

Dirk Van Eester and Ernesto Lerche have published a new article in the January 2021 issue of Nuclear Fusion (Volume 61, Number 1). The paper is entitled “Solving the all-FLR ICRH integro-differential wave equation as a high-order differential equation for studying combined ICRH-NBI heating” and the abstract can be read here.

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New publications (December 2020)

Two articles authored or co-authored by members of the LPP have been published in the December 2020 issue of Nuclear Fusion: Sawtooth control with modulated ICRH in JET-ILW H-mode plasmas, E. Lerche et al 2020 Nucl. Fusion 60 126037, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abb424 Generation and observation of fast deuterium ions and fusion-born alpha particles in JET D-3He plasmas with the 3-ion radio-frequency heating scenario, […]

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